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Within a few days, Red Cloud appeared at the Fort with a great retinue, a whole village complete when they camped, and announced that he and his people had some fifty thousand dollars in sight to stake on the race; which, of course, was to be a scratch race for both. The soldiers, being very human, raised all they could and much that they couldn't, really to cover this handsome sum.
She sat down sort of sideways, reached around with one paw to scratch where it hurt and thought the matter over. I had to stuff grass in my mouth to keep from howling with laughter at the way she cocked her head and seemed to be sizing up the situation while she scratched the stinging place.
Go in at 'im, sir, wiv both 'ands, an' you'll be all right. Won't 'e, Fred? 'I said 'ow it 'ud be, was the only reply Fred would vouchsafe. Tony was half afraid the referee would give the fight against him without another round, but to his joy 'Time' was duly called. He came up to the scratch as game as ever, though his head was singing. He meant to go in for all he was worth this round.
I wasn't the only person there they were writing in a register. Get back into the carriage, Mademoiselle, or somebody will see you There are lots of people there who know you Monsieur and Madame d'Etaples " "What do I care? The truth! Tell me the truth " "But didn't you understand my signals? He is going on well. It was only a scratch Ah! Madame that's only my way of talking.
In the sunny fields and woods we shall find many of the land-birds, and first comes a family whose habits are so like those of chickens that they are called "scratchers." These birds depend for food upon seeds and bugs or worms they scratch out of the ground. Up in the Sierra sugar-pines and fir-woods lives the largest of these "scratchers," the brown grouse.
The blood trickled from a scratch on Count Hannibal's neck; half an inch to the right and the point had found his throat. And Tignonville, elated, laughed anew, and swaying from side to side on his hips, watched with growing confidence for a second chance.
He was carefully examining the watch, which he still held in the palm of the hand holding it as carefully as though indeed it might be laden with germs the least touch of which against a tiny scratch might produce death. "Quite a curiosity," said the colonel at length. "If you don't mind, I should like to examine this a bit." "You can't take it away," said Donovan.
There were quaint old maps on the wall, and 'collections' birds and shells under glass cases, and there was a wonderful pictured screen which old Mrs. Berrington had made when Lionel was young out of primitive woodcuts illustrative of nursery-tales. The place was a setting for rosy childhood, and Laura believed her sister never knew how delightful Scratch and Parson looked there. Old Mrs.
It was one of those painful hours that crop up from time to time in life and seem to leave a little scratch upon the soul. But when quarter past three came Mrs. Harley pulled herself together. She had already dropped hints of every known and well-recognized kind to George, without success. She had even invented appointments for him at the dentist's and the tailor's.
Yours!" But none of them tried to stop me, firstly because I was going so fast, and also perhaps because each one thought I would be caught by his comrades who were further on. In this way I escaped from them all and arrived at the 14th without either I or my excellent mare having suffered a scratch.
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